Seeing computer vision applied in such terrible ways is heartbreaking. I love the science, but we need to seriously reconsider the harm that is being done.

Our call for craft and tutorial sessions for #FAccT2026 is now live! ▶️ Craft CfP: facctconference.org/2026/cfpcraf... ▶️ Tutorials CfP: facctconference.org/2026/cft.html Both kinds of proposals are due March 25!

📢 I am hiring a highly-motivated Ph.D student at the University of Copenhagen to work on tokenization-free NLP. Read our previous work in this topic: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-m... openreview.net/forum?id=FkS... Apply by March 8: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1563

3 more days until the submission deadline for our AI for Peace workshop @ ICLR 2026. Check the details at the link below. Looking forward to receiving your submissions! Let’s make it together a great workshop and a place for meaningful discussion on this rarely touched but very important topic!

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

I have tried consciously to talk about politics less here but my god, abolish ICE and put everyone involved with this on trial

So the White House just digitally manipulated a photo of a protester to give her darker skin & make her look like she was crying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Submission deadline is next week! @iclr-conf.bsky.social

That was fun! Thanks for the invitation :-)

The “AI” that brought you MechaHitler and CSAM on demand is being integrated into military networks.

📢The first UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series in 2026 is coming! Come join us on 15th January at 1 pm CET with @noagarciad.bsky.social and @thwiedemer.bsky.social !

We have an important #FAccT2026 update! Our new dates are June 25-June 28 and our new location is Le Centre Sheraton Montréal. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience caused by this change! Why the change? Thread --> 1/n

AI for Peace workshop at @iclr-conf.bsky.social 26 or 27 April (TBC), Rio de Janeiro Call for papers 🟣 Two tracks: tiny papers and published work 🟣 Deadline: 30th January Accepted papers will receive special consideration for ICLR financial assistance. aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io/callforpapers/

I have an opening for a two years post-doc position on instance-level (personalized) visual generation. Eligibility: (i) <=7 years from Ph.D. (ii) studies or 1 year outside of Czechia (ii) >=3 journal with IF or CORE A*/A conference papers. Deadline: 15 Feb. Details: www.euraxess.cz/jobs/399390

Always more money for war.

🚀New task: Instance-level Image+Text→Image Retrieval 🔎Given a query image + an edit (“during night”), retrieve the same specific instance after the change — not just any similar object. 🛢New dataset on HF: i-CIR huggingface.co/datasets/bil... 🔥Download, run, and share results!

I'd say that working on the facct deadline is a way more rewarding experience than cvpr rush

I feel it is important not to over-index on the CSAM angle, which is undoubtedly important, but which makes up a relatively tiny fraction of these. The primary way this is being used is to sexually harass adult women, and that is also very bad.

The only thing I can surmise is they simply don’t care about harassment of women. They don’t think it’s newsworthy, at least not as newsworthy as Gemini creating an image of a Black founding father.

I keep saying this in my talks when people ask me whether bias in image generation is really such a big problem. Apparently, it's only an emergency to be solved immediately when bias is perceived as "woke".

Unfortunately we have to wait at least until 2032 for CVPR to be outside of USA.

My new year's resolution is co-organising this workshop 👇

明けましておめでとうございます💫

An academic of my generation would have send Gandalf away for max. 3 years, because that’s how long academics can plan these days. #academicchatter

👏 F I N A L L Y 👏

Machines shouldn’t make life or death decisions. It’s that simple. We need a treaty to #StopKillerRobots now.

Announcing the first AI for Peace Workshop @ ICLR 2026. The workshop aims to provide a forum for examining the relationship between AI research and its military, surveillance, and conflict-related applications. aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io

Normally “I’m proud of you” is something someone says to someone under their wing, but this time it’s the other way around Super proud of my advisor for putting this together! This stuff is important. Saying otherwise is like putting your underwear on over your pants, just doesn’t make sense

Workshop investigating military, surveillance, dual use, and ethical implications of AI technologies!

This is a very serious initiative. While AGI risk debates get much attention, we should worry more about the immediate danger from AI’s role in automating war and surveillance.

Couldn't be more proud of the amazing people I know organizing a conference on a topic that's been worth discussing for the longest time (or rather, the whole time) For anyone interested, please consider attending, or better yet, submitting!

Building bridges, Not weapons. What does AI really bring to our society? Are we ready to face the elephant in the room? 👉 Join the AI for Peace Workshop @ ICLR 2026!

CfP: AI for Peace Workshop @ ICLR 2026 This workshop creates a dedicated space within the ML community to critically address AI’s dual-use nature, militarization, and surveillance, while foregrounding peace-building, ethics, and international law. #AIethics #PeaceTech #ICLR2026

Great initiative... thanks to the organisers

Worried about AI’s military uses? We are too. We’re organising an ICLR 2026 workshop on AI research and military applications—dual-use risks, transparency, accountability, and ethical/legal governance & policy. Details + paper submissions: see Noa’s post and visit aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io.

Announcing the first AI for Peace Workshop @ ICLR 2026. The workshop aims to provide a forum for examining the relationship between AI research and its military, surveillance, and conflict-related applications. aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io

Ok, I have a strong opinion on this, perhaps you can convince me otherwise: if you need an LLM to understand a paper for reviewing, perhaps you should not be a reviewer. And your argument is saved time, then perhaps you planned to not read all the details. Then again, you should not be a reviewer.

Having reasonably-sized open datasets & models up enables more eyes & brains to look at complex tasks, eg autonomous driving, but not only. A broader community can debug, break, understand & improve such models in novel ways that a single team working on it might have missed.

Such an inspiring keynote

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@luwei56.bsky.social is there presenting EMMA!

It is time for the last poster session of #EurIPS featuring the Salon des Refusés papers! Looking forward to an hour of great scientific discussion

At the community discussion panel at @euripsconf.bsky.social Q1. Why do you see value in EurIPS? 20% voted for European collaboration

Super excited (and a bit nervous) to give a keynote tomorrow afternoon at #EurIPS. I'll be math, LLMs, and politics 🔥

Time for another AI art open call with @cvprconference.bsky.social 🤖🎉 Submit your artwork with/about computer vision for #CVPR2026 in Denver until 8th March Don't have a suitable work? You have months to make one 😃 Details: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/... #creativeAI #AIart

A functioning peer-review system with top-level conferences had one advantage, which is now eroded: unknown authors doing excellent research got into the conferences and therefore had a voice. I doubt that an equivalent arxiv-only submission will have the same chances of success. 5/5

#KostasThoughts: Please stop using AI tools to write reviews. I want your authentic thoughts, even if they contain spelling, grammar, & factual mistakes. An LLM should not influence your judgment. The purpose of multiple reviewers is to provide diverse views and error checking.

Yes of course AI denfese is what Japan needs 🤦‍♀️

Iclr reviews and cvpr deadline on the same week is 💀

🤞🏾A few days left for #CVPR submissions. 🪩 If submitting a paper on composed image retrieval, test your method on i-CIR, the real-world, truly compositional dataset. #cvpr2026 #composed_image_retrieval #image_retrieval